reeves2002 Review of Devour

Devour (2005 Video)

Started out good but then got lame and then a complete flop!

[3/10 · 10 March 2007]

I liked the trailer for this movie so I bought it.I liked how it started out.Good special effects and got really interesting even though it's not an original idea.I thought all the actors playing these roles were really good. At first I assumed Jake and Dakota were a couple and not just friends,so it made no sense the way they were acting towards each other,and I didn't like the way Jake was treating her since she seemed to have a thing for him.I really liked the Conrad character(played nicely by Teach Grant) and was hoping he would have been around until the end.It was disappointing that he was killed off so early on since there was a lot more about him which should have been explored.This movie started to annoy me once the mystery unfolded and Jake(Played very well by Jensen Ackles)found out who he really was and the truth about his parents.This part of the story was way too rushed and not explained properly.There were a lot of holes in the story I liked Jake's uncle.His character was also a local cop and I was convinced he would survive and help solve the mystery,but instead gets killed in a stupid,senseless way.His uncle had absolutely no connection to the pathway and wasn't hated by the main 3 characters who were playing the game. The part that ruined it for me the most and why i'm selling this DVD is the pathetic ending! First the stupid events leading up to Jacob's Satanic past, for instance some woman and her unborn child being sacrificed by some guy who wanted some kind of power.The next thing you know,this woman was still alive and working as a nurse,and was the same age as her son who was supposedly stolen and raised by a couple pretending to be Christians.It never fully explained or showed how his adoptive mother(if that's who she even was)ended up in a wheelchair and at some nursing home.The tension between Jake and his adoptive father(if that was who he really was also) was just abruptly added without a proper explanation either.This movie has some of the worst character development that i've seen. Now the part of this movie that was the worst and laughable was that the devil in this horrible story was a woman.Oh my God could it get any more stupid.The Devil is no more a woman then God himself is! If the devil is a woman and his real mother was also a woman then how the hell was he conceived? At this point the movie was a flop.The cheesy she/he/creature with tits scaring the kids who were playing the pathway was anything but frightening.Had the devil been male(like HE actually is) this movie may have made more sense as to Jake possibly being born out of Satanic ritual abuse.But if this was the case,you would need a real flesh and blood man and woman.It would have made more sense if his father (who was formerly involved in the occult anyway) had an affair with the woman posing as a nurse.Maybe she and her unborn child were sacrificed during a Satanic mass and then born again with certain abilities.His father could have remarried and stole the baby and raised him.Conveniately the wife gets in an accident and is crippled,and the grown Jacob is having nightmares about his past and who is mother really is.The game pathway is an interesting and good way for the devil's followers to devour souls end of story. Anyhow this is not how they wrote it.They even had the nerve to throw in at the end in the last few seconds before the end credits a stupid idea that the entire movie was all in Jake's head and that he somehow killed off all those people and got away with it and finally got caught.And what was with that stupid line "the devil couldn't kill her own/our own child",I mean what was that all about.No matter what angle they used the plot made absolutely no sense and wasn't even based on actual facts so This is why it was a total flop! Of course somebody else may have their own interpretation of the events of this movie with all the holes in this story and I would love to hear it!I gave this movie a 3 out of 10 because it was a bad script with a talented cast.What a waste of good talent!